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Algeria announced that it will abandon a gas pipeline that supplied Spain via Morocco in a hostile act that followed the severance of diplomatic ties with Rabat. Moroccan officials rely on the pipeline to power two electricity plants in the north, but the decision would do little damage as the Kingdom foresaw the move. […]
Israel has described Algeria’s accusations of igniting fires in the Kabylie region as “unfounded” and “unworthy” of responding to, inviting Algeria to concentrate on resolving the problems it faces, in particular its serious economic problems, rather than seeking scapegoats to pin all its failures on. Algeria has accused Morocco and Israel of igniting wildfires […]
UN Secretary General António Guterres meets this Thursday Head of the UN Mission for the Sahara (MINURSO) Colin Stewart, whose mandate ends on October 31, 2021, according to UN sources. This meeting comes as the Sahara talks are at a standstill since the two round-table meetings held in Geneva more than two years ago, while […]
Algeria’s unilateral decision to severe diplomatic relations with Morocco has been deplored by several countries, international organizations and analysts as harmful to the interests and stability in North Africa. In this context, the French government had expressed its regret over the Algerian hasty decision, calling for restraint and a return to dialogue, urging Algeria to […]
Mired in conspiracy theories that hit an absurd level, Algeria has cut diplomatic ties with its only stable and prosperous neighbor, Morocco, further complicating its self-isolation in the region and the continent. The Algerian foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra ascribed in a diatribe all the woes and self-inflicted problems facing Algeria to Morocco, blaming the Kingdom […]
The statement by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at a conference held two weeks ago in Morocco on Algeria’s ties with Iran contains “accurate information,” spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry for Arab media Hassan Kaabia said. “Algeria has become, since the beginning of the Arab Spring, a passageway for terrorist movements, at the […]
Morocco deplored the “unilateral decision” by Algerian authorities to sever diplomatic ties with the Kingdom, foreign ministry said. “Morocco fully deplores this unjustified though expected decision,” the ministry said in a statement, citing the recent “escalation” and “its impact on the Algerian people.” “Morocco categorically rejects the fallacious pretexts, even absurd pretext” that permeated the […]
Algerians have to wake up early to be able to buy subsidized bread amid a shortage of flour in the oil-rich country, Algerian media wrote. This scarcity of flour sent prices of bread skyrocketing from 10 dinars to 20 dinars auguring ill for the purchasing power of most vulnerable groups in a country that failed […]
Algeria attempts to divert attention from its internal dysfunctions and multiple failures by accusing Morocco and Israel of being behind a number of its problems, including the forest fires in Kabylie. The remarks were made by journalist Anthony Bellanger during the program “Geopolitics” aired by France Inter. The journalist explained that the Algerian […]
The Algerian regime is mocking itself with its anti-Moroccan rhetoric. This time, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune accused Morocco, Israel of supporting the Kabyle independence movement MAK which it accused for the wildfires together with Rachad islamists. After days of blazes, the Algerian regime showed an inability to extinguish fires and protect lives. More than 90 people […]